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Re:YC Research by urs2102 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:32PM (#10347948)
@sama - Interesting, I definitely think the toss up between meaningful research and high paying engineering work is very broken. You mentioned how compensation will not be determined based on conferences and papers, do you have any specifics on how you would measure "quality of output"? Will researchers be compensated differently based on said quality?

(As often times the quality of research output is hard to gauge immediately without the greater context of time passing)

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Re:YC Research by sama on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:51PM (#10348113)
Definitely still a work in a progress on how we'll measure it.
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Re:YC Research by materialsguy on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:00PM (#10348609)
ARPA-E (The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, http://arpa-e.energy.gov/) has some interesting models on how to encourage meaningful innovation tied to continued funding. Might be worth a look. Same with DARPA.
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